From our first moments out in the world, crying is something that comes naturally to us as human beings. But most of us have been taught to stifle our natural expressions of grief, holding the pain inside where no one else has to see it. Crying, however, is not a shame.
How do you express grief?
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton
What book has given you courage to take on your particular dragons?
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
How do you honor MLK Day?
“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
― Barack Obama
What do you do to bring hope to yourself and/or others?
What feels like destruction in the moment can turn out to be the tearing down of barriers that keep you from seeing what lies beyond them.
When have you gained new insight through tearing down what you thought you knew?
